diff --git a/integration-tests/jakarta-ee/pom.xml b/integration-tests/jakarta-ee/pom.xml
index fec63417b7..3eb8267546 100644
--- a/integration-tests/jakarta-ee/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/jakarta-ee/pom.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         <arquillian.graphene.version>3.0.1.Final</arquillian.graphene.version>
         <drone.browser>firefox</drone.browser>
 
-        <payara.version>7.2026.7</payara.version>
+        <payara.version>7.2026.8</payara.version>
         <payara.start.skip>${skipITs}</payara.start.skip>
         <asadmin.cmd>asadmin</asadmin.cmd>
         <unix-sed-skip>${payara.start.skip}</unix-sed-skip>
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.flowlogix</groupId>
             <artifactId>flowlogix-jee</artifactId>
-            <version>11.4.1</version>
+            <version>11.4.2</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/integration-tests/pom.xml b/integration-tests/pom.xml
index 53a6e898cd..b11842b579 100644
--- a/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <japicmp.skip>true</japicmp.skip>
-        <dependency.meecrowave.version>2.0.0</dependency.meecrowave.version>
+        <dependency.meecrowave.version>2.1.1</dependency.meecrowave.version>
         <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
         <nexus.deploy.skip>true</nexus.deploy.skip>
     </properties>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e6cf1ceba6..a252d2b3b9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -115,17 +115,17 @@
         <quartz.docs.version>2.3.0</quartz.docs.version>
         <slf4j.version>2.0.18</slf4j.version>
         <log4j.version>2.26.1</log4j.version>
-        <spring.version>7.0.8</spring.version>
-        <spring-boot.version>4.1.0</spring-boot.version>
+        <spring.version>7.0.9</spring.version>
+        <spring-boot.version>4.1.1</spring-boot.version>
         <guice.version>7.0.0</guice.version>
         <jaxrs.api.version>4.0.0</jaxrs.api.version>
         <htmlunit.version>5.4.0</htmlunit.version>
         <bouncycastle.version>1.85.2</bouncycastle.version>
 
         <!-- Test 3rd-party dependencies: -->
-        <easymock.version>5.6.0</easymock.version>
+        <easymock.version>5.7.0</easymock.version>
         <mockito.version>5.23.0</mockito.version>
-        <bytebuddy.version>1.18.11</bytebuddy.version>
+        <bytebuddy.version>1.18.12</bytebuddy.version>
         <gmaven.version>5.1.0</gmaven.version>
         <groovy.version>5.1.0</groovy.version>
         <junit.version>6.1.3</junit.version>
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
                         <dependency>
                             <groupId>biz.aQute.bnd</groupId>
                             <artifactId>biz.aQute.bndlib</artifactId>
-                            <version>7.3.0</version>
+                            <version>7.4.0</version>
                         </dependency>
                     </dependencies>
                 </plugin>
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>com.mycila</groupId>
                     <artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>5.1.1</version>
+                    <version>5.1.2</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <aggregate>true</aggregate>
                         <header>${root.dir}/src/license/header.txt</header>
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
                         <dependency>
                             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                            <version>13.10.0</version>
+                            <version>14.0.0</version>
                         </dependency>
                     </dependencies>
                 </plugin>
diff --git a/support/jakarta-ee/pom.xml b/support/jakarta-ee/pom.xml
index 0bcc6d408a..2228a13e26 100644
--- a/support/jakarta-ee/pom.xml
+++ b/support/jakarta-ee/pom.xml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.omnifaces</groupId>
             <artifactId>omnifaces</artifactId>
-            <version>5.4.5</version>
+            <version>5.5</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>